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...outer edges of man's environment live various wild animals that are not likely to survive under the conditions that man has imposed on their surroundings. The U.S. has 101 varieties, known collectively and officially as "endangered species." They range from the black-footed ferret, which roams the Dakotas, to Bachman's warbler, which flits through the swamps of the Southeast. In recent years, as the Government made it official policy to save these creatures from going the way of the great auk, the news of threatened extinction has slowly changed to news of survival. Some...
Unfortunately, the same techniques don't always work for his biographers. Abrahams and Stansky load their book with detail, but it is generally off the mark rather than tangential. It is a valuable book for what it tells of life on the outer rim of privilege, not for what it tells of Orwell. But since no one is likely to investigate the life of the lower-upper-middle class for its own sake, and since the party administrators of the world are more important and disgruntled than is regularly recognized, the book is worthwhile even if it sheds little light...
...Search of Ancient Astronauts, Hour-long special explores German author Erich Von Daniken's thesis that the ancient gods were visitors from outer space. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...Each, in his way, is a somewhat enigmatic character. Despite moments of humor, Nixon remains his intense, somewhat rigid self, even with Kissinger. Both men have their private lives, and Kissinger is not on the list (a short one) of the President's intimate friends. For all his outer ego, his fierce driving of subordinates and his international celebrity, Kissinger has a servant's heart for Nixon when it comes to power and ideas. He has been willing to subject himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty...
What are astronauts? What am I? Hero, pilot, explorer in love With myself and with my work, Unheeding the many dangers that lurk In outer space or here on earth, I accept all as due my birth.-Al Worden...